IN BRITAIN; OR, A BONE TO GNAW FOR THE TROLLOPES, FIDLERS, &c. BEING NOTES FROM A JOURNAL, ON SEA AND ON LAND, BY GRANT THORBURN, SEEDSMAN. NEW-YORK: WILEY & LONG, 161 BROADWAY. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1834, by GRANT THORBURN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. OBBORN AND BUCKINGHAM PRINTERS, 766253 P R E F A СЕ. WHEN a man of small abilities, who has never been inside of a college, sends forth a book into the world, he is branded as an absurd egotist, or a consummate, proud upstart. Again, if the world see a man grovelling along without a spark of ambition to raise him among his fellows, they say he is a meanspirited mortal, and ask him--“ Man, why don't you have more pride?" Just such a world of contradiction we live in. Once in a while, when we see a coachmaker, shoemaker, or sailmaker, and sometimes a currier of jackass hides, set up for |